Description: This book provides fascinating insights into the speculations and impacts of multiple overlapping and interdisciplinary futures.
Brief description: Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is a philosopher, literary theorist, and professor of comparative literature at Babson College. His work tracks movements of radical thought across the so-called East and the West, with particular attention to concepts of chaos, violence, illusion, silence, extremism, mania, disappearance, night, evil, secrecy, and apocalyptic writing. He has published nine books to date, including two volumes titled Omnicide I and Omnicide II on madness, and two volumes on night titled Night: A Philosophy of the After-Dark and Night II: A Philosophy of the Last World. He is also the founding director of the Future Studies Program, Programmer of Transdisciplinary Studies for The New Centre for Research & Practice, and co-editor of the Future's Theory and Suspensions book series for Bloomsbury Press.
Review Quotes:
"This book is a treasure trove-a constellation of brilliant thinkers conjure up images and ideas, myths and media, to summon worlds that were, that are, and that have yet to come." --Anna Greenspan, Associate Professor of Global Contemporary Media at NYU Shanghai, China
"Future's Theory comes as a series of signals from the future, cast back into the chaos of the present. This episodic catalogue uncovers a fascinating futurist milieux, where chimeras and oracles and the orobouros return in forms of machinic thoughts and unforeseen powers and haunt the virtual. Here we have the guidelines for some secret mechanics, revealed through concise stories for cyborgs and posthumans. Future's Theory initiates a new series of speculative and projective theories, uncoiling from discrete prescient reports of curious events that activate a new sense of wonder from the future." --Thomas Mical, Director of the Esoteric Library of the Kangra Valley, India "A vision of possible libraries, a book of passages, a commonplace book blending the prehistoric and the post-historic--these are some of ways one might describe the contents of this dazzling collection. Using futurity as a theoretical laboratory, these thinkers invite us to reconsider our relationship to the past, and to envision the perilous enchantment of what lies ahead." --Javier Padilla, Associate Professor of English at Colgate University, USA